A head start on entrepreneurship
Cyndia Zwahlen
Learning to set up a business is helping low-income youths gain a sense of the possible.
Mayor gets closer to deal on a role in schools
By Duke Helfand and Joel Rubin
Villaraigosa hopes new board majority will be open to alliance, but details are under wraps.
Capistrano schools again embroiled in a recall
By Seema Mehta
New effort in southern Orange County targets four trustees who were subjects of a previous attempt.
A look at the incoming L.A. Unified school board
By Howard Blume
Thumbnail biographies of education officials as the new panel gives mayor a friendly majority.
Stopgap school reform sought
By Henry Weinstein
A law targeting 'diploma mills' expires, leaving legislators grappling with how best to protect students.
GLOBAL REPORT
A more global way with education
By Jon Boone
LONDON — Two of the world's most buccaneering education entrepreneurs have teamed up to build 60 multimillion-dollar schools in big cities across the world. >>
Success is outcome of mock trial
By Carla Rivera
Students from a rough L.A. area just played attorneys. But the experience let them know that they can be real ones someday.
U.S. SUPREME COURT: ADMISSIONS POLICIES
Justices reject school integration efforts
By David G. Savage
The 5-4 ruling amid strong dissent suggests a sharp change in direction for the Supreme Court and education policies.
Small firm is big source of L.A. school consultants
By Evelyn Larrubia
TBI Associates, under scrutiny for alleged timecard fraud, supplies construction managers.
2 charter schools get one-year reprieve
By Howard Blume
Discovery Preparatory, Pacifica plan to show state and local officials that they are improving.
School board OKs general fund budget
By Joel Rubin
The Los Angeles Unified Board of Education on Thursday approved a $6.2-billion general fund budget for the coming school year.
U.S. SUPREME COURT: ADMISSIONS POLICIES
In Seattle, emotional reactions to ruling
By Tomas Alex Tizon and Lynn Marshall
For the mother who led a 2000 lawsuit, the Supreme Court's decision is a vindication. The school district finds some solace.
U.S. SUPREME COURT: SCHOOL REACTION; PRICE CONTROLS
Officials ponder meaning of ruling for L.A. Unified
By Howard Blume and Mitchell Landsberg
Some experts say the school system is immune from the decision's effects, but others disagree. A big question: What about the magnet program?
U.S. SUPREME COURT: SCHOOL REACTION; PRICE CONTROLS
Voices
'This is a very lame excuse to tell a school system that they don't have to use race as an arbiter to help kids achieve and get a fair deal. In a world that still has the vestiges of racism, that's a ridiculous rationale.'
Green Dot plans a school in New York
By Joel Rubin
The teachers union is to run the campus with the charter group, a setup rejected by United Teachers Los Angeles.
Board won't bar alleged molester from schools
By Garrett Therolf
School psychologist won't lose his license. The alleged victim's mother is 'outraged.'
COLUMN ONE
Reel life was his real love
By Shawn Hubler
He may be unknown to moviegoers, but retiring Crossroads School teacher Jim Hosney has had a profound influence on what they see.
L.A. Unified weighs facility fees for youth groups
By Joel Rubin
Plan draws anger, but officials cite need to close budget gap.
COLUMN ONE
Marx loses currency in new China
By Mitchell Landsberg
Teaching socialism is mandatory, but learning it is monotonous for today's students, who revere money more than Mao.
Justices let schools ban pro-drug signs
By David G. Savage
High court rules, 5-4, that administrators have the right to discipline students for promoting illegal activities.
COLUMN ONE
Schools call roll at a border crossing
By Nicholas Riccardi
Students routinely walk from homes in Mexico to attend public institutions in the U.S. In Arizona, one district has chosen not to ignore the violation.
Toxic mold to delay start of classes at high school in Lodi
Cleanup measures are expected to cost millions of dollars. District officials seek funding.
Put to the test
By Shari Roan
More schools are asking students to take drug tests, saying it gives them a reason to 'say no.' Addiction experts contend results are unreliable.
BOB SIPCHEN / SCHOOL ME
These educators have seen what works
Bob Sipchen
I'm haunted by a recurring vision. A limitless throng of yammering teachers, think tankers and ivory tower types descend upon those of us interested in education, burying us in their latest books. Down onto our psyches they thunder, snowboarding atop an avalanche of hardbacks and paperbacks — billions and billions of them — each offering some new solution to schooling's woes.
BOB SIPCHEN SCHOOL ME
If wired right, computers do belong in classrooms
Bob Sipchen
A buzzed-about U.S. Department of Education study released this month found that some popular software programs schools use to teach math and reading are pretty worthless.
